Kevin Smith recently remembered Ben Affleck’s sweet gesture as they shoot their first film together.
While catching up with PEOPLE magazine on the 25th anniversary of their film from 1999 Dogmawhich returns to theaters on Thursday, June 5th, the 54-year-old American filmmaker reflected to work with Affleck on his 1995 film Mallrats.
Smith shared that the 52-year-old American actor and filmmaker left him taknotes more than once when he let him leave the set to work on Good will hunt If they would pause shoot.
At that time, Accountant Actor and his friend Matt Damon had just sold the manuscript to Castle Rock Entertainment.
When he came to his mind, Smith revealed, “He would come over and be like, ‘Hi, I don’t shoot for three days. Can I fly back to Los Angeles to work on the manuscript with Matt? We had a meeting with Castle Rock.’ I said, ‘Oh my God, absolute, man, just come back before shooting.’ “
“He didn’t work every day. So otherwise he was sitting around in Minnesota. So when he wanted to leave, and he did this as three times during the shoot, he always left me a roof note on my desk,” the director of Chasing Amy noted.
He explained, “I would go to my office and there is an envelope that said ‘Kevin’, I would open it. And it was from Ben: Young Ben Affleck that went like, ‘Hello man, thank you for letting me go back to Los Angeles to our manuscript. I just want you to know that I have a really good time in this movie. It’s fun to be around young people.
“Just very polite. Not in an A ***-Kissy, at all way. Like, I don’t know, maybe like today you would sms of ***** The person, but this was 1995, and the man put F ***** pen into paper and sealed it in an envelope,” Kevin Smith said.
